Indonesia:
Diarrhea Claims 178 Lives In Baliem Valley
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
JAYAPURA (Irian Jaya), April 27 (Bernama) -- A diarrhea outbreak
in Baliem Valley, Jayawijaya district, has claimed 178 lives within a month's
time, ANTARA ...
Cholera
claims 151 in Indonesia
News24 - South Africa
Wamena - A cholera outbreak in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua
has killed 151 people in the last month and has made another 3 200 ill, says a
health ...
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PNG
debutant, big in heart if not in size
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Hagan is PNG's most western settlement, by the troubled border with Irian
Jaya, where Papuans are fleeing the Indonesian army. Aiton ...
West
Papua Legal Action to Expose Jakarta Lobby
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
West Papua solidarity groups today welcomed law firm Mallesons
Stephen Jacques’s legal action against the Howard Government and claim
the proceedings will ...
Govt
cannot silence human rights
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
... Bambang Yudhoyono's recent call for the Australian government to
clamp down on organizations and individuals who support human rights in West
Papua is baffling ...
Solomon
Islands evacuation
CCTV - Beijing,China
... nights' efforts, we've finally left Solomon Islands and got to Papua
New Guinea ... in Hong Kong, and the other 22 people from outside
Guangdong Province have also ...
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Country's
Largest Wood Flooring Convention is the Place to Be to ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) -
Washington,DC,USA
As the vast majority of merbau comes from Papua Province,
Indonesia where 80 percent of logging is estimated to be illegal, many of these
companies are ...
Diarrhoea
outbreak kills at least 58 in Papua
Radio New Zealand International -
Wellington,New Zealand
A diarrhoea outbreak in a remote area of Indonesia’s Papua province
has reportedly killed at least nearly 60 people and left hundreds of others ill.
...
Papuan
visa decision applauded
ABC Online - Australia
... human rights activists about ongoing abuses in that troubled province,
but very little ... particularly in the separatist hot spots of Aceh,
East Timor and Papua. ...
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Papuans
'hiding' after boat sinking
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Nick Chesterfield, a spokesman for the Free West Papua
Campaign, said the 18 students were said by networks in West Papua
to be alive after their boat ...
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West
Papua’s Cry For Freedom
CounterCurrents.org - India
By Ghali Hassan. The Australian Federal Treasure, Senator Peter Costello told
ABC Radio recently: “West Papua has always been part of
Indonesia. ...
Indonesia
'shrugs off' Papua talks
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... "It's a point we've often made to the Indonesians that, from
their point of view, the sooner they move to special autonomy for West Papua
and ensure that human ...
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Back
to the Garden
Nashville Scene - TN, USA
Villevoye has spent time with the Asmat, a people living in Irian Jaya
(New Guinea), part of the former Dutch possessions in Indonesia. ...
Sri
Sri tours Far East, receives Taiwanese award
Newindpress (subscription) - Chennai,India
... At this, Yudhoyono suggested that the centre develop villages in
Merauke in Papua province, as youth there need immediate attention
following the recent ...
Leaders
seek face-saving formula over Papua
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... he said."It's a point we've often made to the Indonesians that,
from their point of view, the sooner they move to special autonomy for West
Papua and ensure ...
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Anne
of Green Able
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
... Basically the companies that are logging in Papua New Guinea
do not comply with the ... Traditional landowners in a logged area in the
country's Western Province. .
West
Papua: Australia-Indonesia relations threatened
UNPO - The Hague,Netherlands
... It seems that Jakarta will not tolerate any interference - perceived
or otherwise - in Papua, its resource-rich province that lies at the
eastern end of its ...
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Overseas
Chinese back home from Solomon Islands
Xinhua - China
... from the riot-torn Solomon Islands arrived in Guangzhou City in South
China's Guangdong Province at 00:29 Tuesday morning. They flew back from Papua
New Guinea ...
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Uphold
rights, Indonesians urged
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... in the troubled province. "It's true, as President (Susilo
Bambang) Yudhoyono himself has admitted, there have been human rights abuses in Papua,"
Mr Downer ...
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Closing
the Asylum Gate
TIME - USA
... the state." Coming amid tension with Indonesia over the granting
of three-year visas to a group of independence activists from West Papua province,
the policy ...
Mild
Earthquake Strikes West Irian Jaya
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 (Bernama) -- A weak earthquake, measuring 4.9 on the
Richter Scale, struck at 2.42pm today at West Irian Jaya, the
Meteorological ...
Indonesia
questions future of 42 Papuans
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Indonesia has been accused of widespread human rights abuses since it
assumed control of Papua, formerly known as Irian Jaya, after a
United Nations referendum ...
More
West Papua protests planned
Green Left Weekly -
Chippendale,NSW,Australia
Groups affiliated with the Australia West Papua Association will
protest outside Rio Tinto’s AGM in Melbourne on May 4 to highlight the
company’s ...
Policy,
public opinion and Papua
Green Left Weekly -
Chippendale,NSW,Australia
... The recent report on Indonesian atrocities in East Timor and an
incipient West Papua solidarity movement in Australia are two
factors that should be a warning ...
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Myanmar
boatpeople to leave Indonesia's Aceh soon
Moneycontrol.com - Mumbai,India
... Political asylum is a sensitive issue in Indonesia since 42 people
from its easternmost province of Papua received temporary visas
from Australia last month ...
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The
phoenix survives
The National - Port Moresby,Papua New
Guinea
... As head of Pangu, the Chief led Papua New Guineans into the
modern ... significant spheres of influence in the country, notably the
Morobe province, regarded for ...
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Papuans die in diarrhea outbreak
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
In Wamena Hospital alone, two more people died late Monday, bringing the
total number of deaths in the hospital since the outbreak on March 16 to 10. ...
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Diarrhoea
outbreak kills 58 in Papua
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
... rainy season. More than 630 people have sought treatment at hospitals
in Jayawijaya’s district town of Wamena, he said. He explained ...
Letter
From Australia: In a tiff over West Papua
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
... Relations have turned prickly since, after 42 of 43 asylum seekers
from West Papua were granted temporary protection visas in
Australia. ...
Editorial:
Abandoning West Papua
NewMatilda.com (subscription) -
Sydney,Australia
... it vital to peace and stability in the region that they put their own
house in order — that they cease repression in all its forms in West
Papua, create the ...
EU
backs RI's stance on Papua
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
... Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, said Friday problems in Papua
must be ... said Hassan briefed him about the situation in the
resource-rich province. ...
Greenpeace
gives 'honors' plywood company
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
... in Papua. Greenpeace Southeast Asia forest campaigner Hapsoro
alleged the company was profiting from plundering forests in the easternmost province.
...
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Australian
Coalition of West Papua Support Groups
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... to get advisory opinions from the International Court of Justice
concerning arrant irregularities in the administration and annexation of West
Papua. ...
WEST
PAPUA SITUATION
Special Broadcasting Service - Australia
WEST PAPUA - rich in natural gas and home to one of the world's
largest gold and copper mines owned by the United States - is caught between
conflicting ...
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Turning
a blind eye
On Line opinion - Australia
... The people of West Papua are experiencing the backwash
of the same mindset. ... Similar reports (pdf file 257KB) from West
Papua are now also freely available. ...
Greenpeace
on campaign for Papua forest conservation
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
... Greenpeace earlier called on the government to declare a logging
moratorium in the provinces of Papua and West Irian Jaya. Ginger ...
A
Papuan proposal
Australian - Sydney,Australia
... off Aceh's far northeastern tip) to Merauke, the southernmost port
city in the former Dutch New Guinea (later known variously as Irian Jaya,
Irian Barat and ...
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Papua
Proving a Wakeup Call to Indonesia
OhmyNews International - South Korea
... It had been known as Irian Jaya, and later, after the
collapse of Suharto, the new government decreed the use of the original name,
Papua. ...
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West
Papua’s Cry for Freedom
Center for Research on Globalization -
Canada
by Ghali Hassan. The Australian Federal Treasure, Senator Peter Costello told
ABC Radio recently: “West Papua has always been part of
Indonesia. ...
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West
Papua – just whose campaign is it?
Crikey - Templestowe,Australia
... And it looks as if West Papua is the new East Timor. ...
Oquist is working with Melrose over West Papua. Fair enough. The
bloke's got to make a living. ...
Papua
province hope
Advertiser Adelaide - Adelaide,South
Australia,Australia
A WINDOW of opportunity remains to solve the bloody rebellion in Indonesia's Papua
province a report says. The Council on Foreign ...
Boat
carrying 21 people sinks off Papua province
ABC Asia Pacific - Australia
A spokesman for Indonesia's Papua province police says the boat
sank after colliding with a speedboat, about one kilometre north of Jayapura. ...
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Report
urges world to help solve rebellion in Papua
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
WASHINGTON (AP): The world has a window of opportunity to help solve a
long-running, bloody rebellion in Indonesia's Papua province, but
it may be closing ...
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Australian
bishop decries asylum changes as step backwards
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA
... tensions with the Indonesian government following the granting of
refugee status by Australia to 42 asylum seekers from Indonesia's troubled Papua
province. ...
Bishop
says asylum processing changes "a step backwards"
CathNews - Australia
... to avoid further tensions with Indonesia following the granting of
refugee status by Australia to 42 asylum seekers from Indonesia's troubled Papua
province. ...
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Freeport's
1Q Earnings Astonish Analysts
Mineweb - Johannesburg,South Africa
... who are upset that a US company is profiting from a poor province
in Indonesia--and separatists--who favor independence for the Papua province--have
targeted ...
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CNODC
buys Indonesia oil block
China Knowledge Online - Singapore
The rights are supposedly for the Manokwari block in Indonesia's Papua province,
one of 10 onshore and offshore oil projects originally tendered by the ...
Chinese
firm seeks license to build $1 billion timber plant in ...
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
A Chinese company is seeking for the government's approval to set up a timber
processing factory worth up to US$1 billion in Papua province. ...
Tarkett
AG Denies Illegally-Sourced Merbau From Papua
Yahoo! News - USA
... Indonesian non-governmental environmental organizations that the firm
sells illegally-sourced merbau tropical hardwood from Indonesia's restive Papua
province. ...
Australia's
Papua stance not helping Indonesian democrats
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... seems incapable of learning from recent history. Australia is
following the old East Timor policy of appeasement on West Papua. ...
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Jakarta
attacks Uniting Church over West Papua
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
INDONESIA'S ambassador to Australia has blamed the Uniting Church for fomenting
unrest in West Papua and criticised Canberra's response in
comments likely to ...
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Papuan
refugees highlight struggle for independence
Taipei Times - Taiwan
... his twin two-year-old sons and more than 30 other people, he set off
from the northern coast of Papua, the Indonesian province once called Irian
Jaya, on New ...
Reports
from Indonesia's Papua province say four people are dead ...
Radio New Zealand - Wellington,New Zealand
Reports from Indonesia's Papua province say two soldiers and two
suspected Papuan independence fighters have died in a clash near the Papua
New Guinea border. ...
Indonesia
suspects plot to shake Papua
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
Recent events from violent rally in Papua province to attack on a
military post to asylum seeking were a proof that a certain group is trying to
create ...
Most
Australians back Papua
Australian - Sydney,Australia
... 5.5 per cent of Australians opposed self-determination for Papua,
while 17.7 ... East Timor, a former Indonesian province, won
independence after the intervention ...
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Mobile
telephone communications expanded in PNG
ABC Asia Pacific - Australia
Residents in the Gazelle and Rabaul districts in Papua New Guinea's East
New Britain province are able to use mobile telephone services for the
first time. ...
Chinese
company to invest in RI forestry sector
Antara - Antara,Indonesia
... 2008. Since 2004, Papua and Irian Jaya Barat provinces
have a quota of 1.2 million cubic meters of logs from natural forests. The ...
Australian
premier stands firm on Indonesian refugees
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... The 2.5 million people of Papua, once called Irian Jaya,
complain of being oppressed by the Indonesian military and having the natural
riches of their homeland ...
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International
focus on new West Papua refugee bid
Torres News - Cape
York,Queensland,Australia
... Deliverance Island is in the far North West of the Torres
Strait only 18 nautical ... on fuel and was believed to have dropped them
near Bula in Papua New Guinea ...
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UN
agency to examine Papua claims
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... The mother, Siti Pandera Wanggai, 40, fled her home in West Papua
last week after she says she was coerced by the Indonesian military into making
false claims ...
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We
risk too much in placating Indonesia on West Papua
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... "The Government's stuck in a rut. It's applied the same
tool" as with earlier boat people. But the real issue, West Papua,
is different. ...
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NGOs
call for logging moratorium
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
... New Guinea island consists of the two Indonesian provinces of Papua
and West Irian Jaya, and the neighboring country Papua New Guinea,
a former colony of ...
A
perilous Pacific odyssey for Papuan independence
International Herald Tribune - France
... In 1963, to appease Indonesia's left- leaning dictator Sukarno, who
was demanding that West Papua be made part of Indonesia, President
John F. Kennedy ...
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Government
caught in bind
Courier Mail - Australia
... be becoming increasingly tangled in its efforts to satisfy Indonesian
sensitivities on the issue of refugee claims from the Indonesian territory of West
Papua. ...
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RPT-CNPC
buys Indonesia oil block from local firm-source
Reuters - USA
CNPC purchased the Manokwari block in Indonesia's remote Papua province
from the little-known Indonesian party, which was awarded the onshore oil and
gas ...
Yudhoyono
Says Indonesia May `Review' Relations With Australia
Bloomberg - USA
... Yudhoyono said he may ``review'' the nation's relations with
Australia after asylum seekers from the Southeast Asian nation's Papua province
were granted visas ...
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Jakarta
made me lie: refugee girl's mother
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South
Wales,Australia
... in Papua New Guinea, said she was coerced by Indonesia into
making a false appeal for the return of her daughter to the eastern Indonesian province
of Papua. ...
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Yudhoyono
vows action on gold mine
International Herald Tribune - France
JAKARTA President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia vowed Monday to address
allegations that a huge US-owned gold mine in Papua Province was
polluting the ...
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Miners
Follow Metals Prices Higher
Houston Chronicle - United States
... shares may also have benefited from news earlier Monday that
Indonesia's president refused to bow to protesters demanding a mine in Papua
province be shut down ...
Australia
slams door on Indonesian asylum-seekers
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... Papua, formerly known as Irian Jaya, was incorporated
into Indonesia through a controversial United Nations-sponsored 'act of free
choice' in 1969. ...
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Surveillance
plane plan for Territory
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... The Orions will operate from the RAAF base at Darwin airport and will
mount round the clock patrols of the waters between West Papua (Irian Jaya)
and Australia ...
Australia
'should confront Indon'
Australian - Sydney,Australia
... Senator Stott Despoja addressed a Free West Papua
concert in Melbourne and called on the Australian Government to grant permanent
visas to 42 asylum seekers ...
Jakarta
Says Yes to Talks, No to Papua Independence
Voice of America - USA
The Indonesian government says it will never consider independence for its
troubled and remote Papua Province - but it is willing to talk
about more autonomy. ...
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Indonesia
delays Australian bird flu aid over Papua refugees
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
... million) of aid it was to get from Australia for stemming the spread
of bird flu after Australia granted temporary visas to asylum seekers from Papua
province. ...
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New
guide to sustainable wood flooring
People & the Planet - London,UK
... This species, a valuable hardwood only commercially available in
Indonesia’s Papua Province and the neighbouring country of Papua
New Guinea, is being ...
West
Papua could damage Indonesian relations: expert
ABC Online - Australia
He told our reporter Dhana Quinn that West Papua is a highly
sensitive issue in Indonesia, and if the Australian Government is seen as being
sympathetic to the ...
Australia
says Papua row won't break Indonesia ties
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
... Reuters) - Australia tried to soothe ties with Indonesia on Monday
after granting asylum to 42 boat people from the country's troubled Papua
province and as ...
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Indonesia's
ambassador to Australia flies to Vanuatu
ABC Asia Pacific - Australia
... the ambassador briefed Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
on Australia's granting of temporary protection visas to 42 people from Papua
province. ...
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Indonesia
says 3 Papuan students possibly flee for PNG
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry said Monday it received report
from Papua New Guinea indicating that three students have fled Papua
province for political ...
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PNG people visit Papua province, says expert
Antara - Antara,Indonesia
... terriroty is larger than the Indonesian People crossing the
neighboring country for the past few years as economic condition in Papua
province is better than ...
Indonesia
postpones signing of Australia's bird flu aid over visa ...
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... postponed the signing of bird flu financial assistance from Australia
in protest to the granting of temporary visas for 42 asylum seekers from Papua
province. ...
Cry
freedom: West Papua's plea to the world
Asia Pacific Media Network - Los
Angeles,CA,USA
... condemned Canberra's decision to grant the Papuans temporary
protection, stating it was baseless, it harmed attempts to resolve West Papua's
problems and ...
West
Papua: Call for Sanctions after Papua Visas Granted
UNPO - The Hague,Netherlands
... Jacob Rumbiak from the West Papuan Association says they are
relieved to have escaped from ... home or something like that when they
compare with in Papua," he said ...
Richard
Chauvel: Papua crucial to Indonesia
Australian - Sydney,Australia
... The decision to hold elections for governor in the newly created
province of West Papua indicates that the Government is determined
to pursue the partition of ...
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PNG
fears West Papua refugee influx
Australian - Sydney,Australia
PAPUA New Guinea fears a possible influx of asylum seekers from the
neighbouring Indonesian province of West Papua after deadly
protests against a US-owned mine ...
Papua
New Guinea bishop: “Islamic extremists coming to West ...
AsiaNews.it - Italy
... a report in the Australian daily, “The Australian” by
Giles Cote, the bishop of a diocese of Papua New Guinea on the border
with West Papua, the Indonesian ...
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Papua
issue throws up paradoxes
Crikey - Templestowe,Australia
... Under Megawati, West Papua was divided into provinces (which resulted
in the creation of West Irian Jaya) – ostensibly to make
the region easier to manage ...
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